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Re: If you like Tyrian, Raptor, etc......get this!

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From: jo... Jared Ong
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <43f946$g...@perseus.peganet.com>, wcau...@peganet.com says:
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>There's a few others to add to the list of great PC shooters... a game
>made way back in 1991 (or was it earlier) by a fellow named Tran.  He
>was previously a member of the demo group Renaissance.  Anyway this
>game Kaeon was pretty revolutionary as far as shooters go.. I remember
>taking this game to highschool and showing it to my pals amd them
>commenting on how much BETTER the gfx were then the group of Genesis
>games that were out.. this game had VGA and parallax way before Major
>Stryker was even out.. (btw, I have no idea where to find this game
>but it's around).. another game: Tubular Worlds is a very good
>overhead/horizontal shooter.. great tunes and a two player mode as
>well.. anyway, there's always Raiden PC too. :) later.

Yes, I remember those now too.  Kaeon was a GREAT game.  I remembering
hanging around the computer in anticipation as my 2400 baud downloaded
that 300K game.  The sound was pretty good too, nice music.  (Btw, I
heard the same music on a copyrighted fighting game once...it was
weird...).  The only problem was the game was pretty hard, and there
was a small playing space.  There was a good option to make the ship
invincible though, and I saw the whole game through.  If I remember, there
was like 3-5 levels or parallel scrolling too.  You're right Bill, a
revolutionary game for that time.

Tubular Worlds was fun, I didn't like the small sprites though.  It was
a blast to play, I do have to admit.

Revised list.

1. Tyrian <-- King so far, nice graphics/sprites.  Good sound.  TWO PLAYER IS GREAT!
2. Baryon <-- Good Game, Raiden Like 
3. Xenon 2  <--  Awesome shoot-up, even though there was no 2 player
4. Kaeon   <-- Revolutionary for its time, plus great graphics!
5. Tubular Worlds <-- Two Player mode rules over Raptor.
6. Raptor <--  Good shoot-em up, no co-op mode.
7. Major Stryker <-- Good for EGA, parallax scrolling

>Bill Caughey - wcau...@peganet.com
>

                                Jared Ong
                           jo...@coyote.csusm.edu
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Subject: Re: If you like Tyrian, Raptor, etc......get this!
Date: 1995/09/18
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